Replication data for: "The crystallization of language over time"

This repository contains the data and R script accompanying the paper "The crystallization of language over time" (under review). The datasets are stored in txt (tab-delimited) and rds format in the /data folder. The files ngrams_lemma.txt and ngrams_pos.txt contain lemma and part-of-speech trigrams and frequency information culled from the C-CLAMP corpus (1850-1999; Piersoul et al. 2021). These files are used to calculate the trigrams' association measures with the R code in 01_data_preparation.R. The file 02_analyses.R contains the R code used to model the trigrams' internal coherence through time using generalized linear and additive mixed models, and assess their distribution by means of Shannon's entropy and Kullback-Leibler Divergence.